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Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema
In honor of Ingmar Bergman’s one hundredth birthday, the Criterion Collection is proud to present the most comprehensive collection of his films ever released on home video. One of the most revelatory voices to emerge from the postwar explosion of international art-house cinema, Bergman was a master storyteller who startled the world with his stark intensity and naked pursuit of the most profound metaphysical and spiritual questions. The struggles of faith and morality, the nature of dreams, and the agonies and ecstasies of human relationships—Bergman explored these subjects in films ranging from comedies whose lightness and complexity belie their brooding hearts to groundbreaking formal experiments and excruciatingly intimate explorations of family life.
Arranged as a film festival with opening and closing nights bookending double features and centerpieces, this selection spans six decades and thirty-nine films—including such celebrated classics as The Seventh Seal, Persona, and Fanny and Alexander alongside previously unavailable works like Dreams, The Rite, and Brink of Life. Accompanied by a 248-page book with essays on each program, as well as by more than thirty hours of supplemental features, Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema traces themes and images across Bergman’s career, blazing trails through the master’s unequaled body of work for longtime fans and newcomers alike.
Arranged as a film festival with opening and closing nights bookending double features and centerpieces, this selection spans six decades and thirty-nine films—including such celebrated classics as The Seventh Seal, Persona, and Fanny and Alexander alongside previously unavailable works like Dreams, The Rite, and Brink of Life. Accompanied by a 248-page book with essays on each program, as well as by more than thirty hours of supplemental features, Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema traces themes and images across Bergman’s career, blazing trails through the master’s unequaled body of work for longtime fans and newcomers alike.
248 pages, Paperback
Published November 20, 2018
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July 15, 2019
This companion piece to the Criterion box set of Ingmar Bergman’s work functions as both a handy guide to his films and a fascinating collection of essays on its own. Essential reading for film buffs... or Bergman buffs, anyway.
October 2, 2020
The book "Ingmar Bergman's Cinema" is of course the companion to the Criterion set of 39 films. I don't believe it's sold outside of the set, though it makes for good reading and could easily stand on its own, with its collection of thirty or so essays on the films included in the set.
Different authors are accompanied by clips from Bergman's own writings, and detail the themes, productions, and motives behind 39 of his works.
Different authors are accompanied by clips from Bergman's own writings, and detail the themes, productions, and motives behind 39 of his works.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews